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Pop isn't the problem.
He's trying everything he can to fix the REAL problem.
Dear sticks,
I, along with a growing number of real Spurs fans on this site, am growing tired of your bull . By openly accusing Pop of all the problems on the Spurs and by extension insinuating that him being fired and replaced (hint: the only better coach than Pop in the NBA right now is Phil Jackson and good luck with that) will make this team perform better, you are either admitting your status as a fairweather stick or have overdosed on the greatness of Tim Duncan and the four championships he has delivered to this team.
Many of us remember the days before Pop and don't see it as an improvement. Many of us remember what it was like to not have a championship, let alone four. Three NBA franchises have more rings than the Spurs, and since you probably don't know who they are, it's the Celtics, Lakers and Michael Jordan. That's some pretty ing good company if you ask me.
This team needs a Bowen clone and another dominant big man next to Duncan to succeed. Not a new coach. If you believe otherwise, you must be shrooming.
Those of you who have had enough of this bull feel free to sign in below. If you truly believe Pop is the problem, explain how any other coach available in the NBA (i.e. not already coaching another team) can make this team capable of dominating the Lakers or any other good team in the West. If the Spurs make the playoffs they'll probably get swept and it has everything to do with the lack of a big man, which has been a big problem here since '08.
Get a mother ing clue for Christ's sake.
Love,
J.T.
Pop isn't the problem.
He's trying everything he can to fix the REAL problem.
it all went downhill after P.J. Carlesimo Left
word.
I don't know about dominating the Lakers but you can make this team better by not starting arguably the worst player in your squad (Bogans) and by not playing small-ball so often.
Go back to the football forum. Quit ing up this one with your idiocy.
This team has a Bowen clone and a dominant big man, ie Bogans and Bonner. At least the great Pop thinks so.
Who are they going to play to avoid small ball? If Mahinmi was Prime Shaq, I'm sure he'd be getting minutes.
Pop sucks big donkey .
Offseason and draft is two months away.
good lord this thread is crazy
Agreed. Basically anyone that calls to fire Pop is a god damn idiot.
So you're just keeping your "stupid" chops fresh by posting here then?Offseason and draft is two months away.
Pop may not be the main problem but he's one of them. Pop won't make RJ any better, or Bonner, or Bogans, or make McDyess return to form or give Manu back his youth or miraculosly heal tony but he can make a lot of better decisions in some os thiese games. Like leaving a young energetic blair in the game instead of replacing him with Antonio, or resting Tony after the first 5 minutes of last night's game after it became obvious he couldn't move and was in pain. There are a lot of things wrong with this team, but in my book, Pop isnt helping. I don't want him fired, but hey, there's plenty of blame to go around, he shouldn't be excused for his past performances, this is the here and now, and I have always apprecited their le, I thought I would never ever see a Championship in my lifetime but my spurs rewarded me with one in 99 and added three more just gravy. I think every fan has right to voice his opinion, I don't have to like it, and I'll put my dos centavos for or against as I see fit, I think all us fans are investors in our team, without us there is no NBA no Spurs, no nothing.
Time to give Daddy the computer back so you can go do your reading comprehension homework.
Theo Ratliff got about as many minutes with the Bobcats before his luggage was unpacked than he got in most of a season with the Spurs. It doesn't take prime shaq to be a step up from Matt Bonner as your starting center.
Well, Matt Bonner has done a great job filling Robert Horry's shoes.
Sorry, I can't say that with a straight face.
A high school basketball coach could improve this team. Basically anyone who hasn't been listening to Charles Barkley tell everyone how good he is won't pull guys out who are on a hot streak, put in four guards against the Bulls on a defensive possession, say "our defense is fine" after giving up 71 points in just over a half to Denver, and likely won't continue to entrust defensive duties to a guy just because he happens to look like Bruce Bowen.
We don't need a "prime Shaq" type of player, we need a Mohammed/Nesterovic kind of player, don't you think Ian could maybe fill that role?
Besides in another thread I post a rotation where you can avoid small-ball without the need of playing Mahinmi.
RJ playing like a pansy, TP playing during the summer, and Ginobili taking half a season to get in basketball form is not Pop's fault.
Changing the starting lineups 20 times and not playing 2 seven footers and letting them rot on the bench is Popovich's fault. The Spurs interior D has to be one of the 5 worst in the NBA. To tell me than Ian is not ready to be a rotation player is bogus. At the least, we'd undoubtedly have a better record than what we have at the moment. This goes back to the last couple playoff exits for the Spurs (i.e. switching small players on to Dirk and letting him go off on us).
As part of the rebuilding process Pop needs to go. That's not an insult to him or what he did in the past but it's time for new blood and a new system. Bring in AJ
You know, it's probably true that all the Spurs need is more rest. Pop should be cutting Duncan's minutes back even more, since they ran out of gas in the second half of their second game in ten days.
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